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On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 7:22 AM, phil cryer <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hey all, I just started experimenting with CouchDB the other day, and > it's pretty cool. With the amount of data the Botanical Heritage > Library (BHL) is carrying, this may be an option for the future. Does > anyone have any experience with it, or any pointers to a good howto, > or basic setup/usage case? I appreciate that it's a different > approach to an age old problem, and I can see it working hand in hand > with things like hadoop (hdfs), lucene/solr, etc. For full-text search, some experimental work has been done. There's hypercouch which brings Hyper Estraier and CouchDB together: http://github.com/davisp/hypercouch/tree/master There's also couchdb-lucene which uses Lucene for full text search: http://github.com/rnewson/couchdb-lucene/tree/master People are still exploring this uncharted land (so to speak). Querying is accomplished by hooking up an "external" service to CouchDB. http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/ExternalProcesses This is basically a process that stays resident, reads requests on STDIN and sends responses on STDOUT as the wiki page I linked to above describes. As for indexing, I think the smart way to do it is to follow couchdb-lucene's example and setup an update_notification script. --beppu